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![The image shows a white/blue clathrate underneath the overhang of a rock at the bottom of the seafloor center of frame. The rock and clathrate fill the image. Shells are scattered all around.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/cc/96/cc969ad7-4ab4-4145-8f07-343c045ae305/clathrate.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-960%2C539_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Discovery of New Proteins Advance Understanding of Climate and AstrobiologySept. 29, 2023
![Close up photograph of a trilobite-looking fossil with spine-like extensions curling back over its body.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/d9/9c/d99ce271-d6c4-416a-a2e8-d7cc5d001337/across.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-210%2C140_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Machine Learning in the Search for Agnostic BiosignaturesSept. 28, 2023
![A simple black and white image of the Periodic Table.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/61/38/6138709e-04fd-4afa-9968-ab119605f973/screenshot_2023-09-27_at_55528_pm.png__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-500%2C390_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Autocatalytic Reactions and the Search for LifeSept. 27, 2023
![The desert of Utah where a distant mountain towers over flat, sandy land with small scrub. The blackened landing capsule is visible in the foreground slightly right of center.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/77/9d/779d8467-4fec-4eb8-bdab-e1c9cf6733b4/53210883020_0f6135cb13_o.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-492%2C328_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room (NASA)Sept. 24, 2023
![A temporary clean room set up on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range is seen here, ready to receive a capsule with samples of asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24. The image was taken on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/c9/61/c9618a77-96dc-409e-92b3-56646a7e6c27/clean_room_person-1536x1024.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-768%2C512_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Secured in Utah Clean Room (NASA)Sept. 24, 2023
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NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa (NASA Goddard)Sept. 23, 2023
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NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample Return (NASA)Sept. 22, 2023
![A wide angle shot from Perseverance of the sandy, rocky surface of Mars. Parts of the rover can be seen in the center foreground. Mountains are seen in the distance.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/9e/e4/9ee4df95-54f4-427c-9a4a-8a40b219447c/1-pia26072-sol-866-ncam-mosaic-with-rover-tracks-jplwebsite.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-4076%2C1203_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Autonomous Systems Help NASA’s Perseverance Do More Science on Mars (NASA JPL)Sept. 21, 2023
![Three researchers in high visibility gear are in the foreground left facing away from the camera. Across the terrain of volcanic rock and pebbles, two researchers can be seen in the distance. Two groups stretch a measuring tape out between them.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/57/f7/57f735c2-e5e7-47ce-a65d-60b42d3e2aa5/2-pia25839-lidar-set-up2.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-1500%2C843_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland (NASA JPL)Sept. 20, 2023
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OSIRIS-REx Makes Final Course Adjustment Before Sept. 24 Sample Delivery (NASA)Sept. 19, 2023
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Community Input for NASA IDEA MeetingSept. 18, 2023
![The 'X-mas Planets' is a collage of computer generated images of potentially habitable worlds created by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) over a section of an image of the De Mairan’s Nebula (Messier 43) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.](/uploads/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/ac/8c/ac8c7cc2-917e-4ea7-865a-952ea8af9a44/exoplanetsgreathall-a.jpg__310x218_q85_crop_subject_location-620%2C254_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg)
Astrobiology Workshop: Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the UniverseSept. 13, 2023
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